Trust level data – Seeing the big picture

Posted by Jan Harrison on Feb 16, 2022 10:30:09 AM

Multi Academy Trust (MAT) leaders are all too aware of the need to have accessible and reliable data available to inform their decision-making. It’s crucial to be able to respond appropriately to dynamic contexts in their schools, and to ensure that every decision makes the best use of resources for improving student learning outcomes.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, data management, ICT vision & strategy

How a data warehouse can aid strategic decisions

Posted by Jan Harrison on Nov 8, 2021 2:07:15 PM

As a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) leader or Trustee, you desire consistent data reporting that will provide you with an accurate picture of your Trust and schools. For example, assessment data might be collected in different ways across each of the schools in the Trust, but as a decision maker how do you gain the oversight that breaks down the barriers of different age phases, assessment approaches and terminologies? Read on to find out how we can answer this kind of question.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, data management, ICT vision & strategy

Data for Strategic Decisions

Posted by Jan Harrison on Jun 9, 2021 4:56:46 PM

Multi Academy Trust (MAT) leaders have an abundance of data at their fingertips, but it isn’t always easy to find it, pull it together for analysis and understand exactly what the data is saying. Being able to do this is critical for continued strategic improvement of the Trust and its’ schools.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, data management, ICT vision & strategy

Being Data and decision-driven for continued improvement

Posted by Jan Harrison on Apr 19, 2021 8:00:00 AM

MATs and schools are not short of data, but are you finding that you are drowning in all that data? So much so that you can’t see the wood for the trees. Making informed decisions to improve learning, teaching and business outcomes is challenging to say the least.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, ICT vision & strategy

Data Management: simplifying data management and analysis

Posted by Jan Harrison on Mar 11, 2021 11:45:16 AM

We hear from MAT leaders all the time that they just have so much data that they are drowning in it and can’t always make sense of it. Does this resonate? Are you able to extract actionable insights from your data that can improve learning outcomes and ultimately Trust performance?

Data management, analysis and reporting doesn’t have to be challenging. There are ways that you should be able to easily and quickly pull together and analyse key data across your Trust and Schools.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, ICT vision & strategy

Good design – just pretty or facilitating data-led decision making?

Posted by Jan Harrison on Feb 25, 2021 3:49:36 PM

MATs and schools have a plethora of data, so much, that it is sometimes difficult to make sense of it so that as a MAT leader you can be confident in your decision making to improve pupil, school and Trust performance.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, ICT vision & strategy

Raising Trust performance through a Data Warehouse

Posted by Jan Harrison on Jan 28, 2021 5:19:12 PM

MATs and schools are not short of data, but are you finding that you are drowning in all that data? So much so that you can’t see the wood for the trees. Making informed decisions to improve learning, teaching and business outcomes is challenging to say the least.

When there is lots of disparate data across a Trust, it can take a lot of time and human resource to consolidate it to help inform decision making. This burden can take leaders’ focus away from what the school is actually there for – educating our children.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, ICT vision & strategy

Data Management: Five steps to overcome five key data challenges

Posted by Jan Harrison on May 3, 2020 12:00:00 PM

Multi Academy Trust (MAT) leaders should be able to easily and quickly pull together and analyse key data across their Trust and Schools.

Here we explore why the reality is often different by examining the key challenges MATs face with Data Management and Reporting and what steps a MAT leader can take to improve the situation.

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Topics: questa, ICT Schools, MATS-first analytics, school data audits, MATS, analytics, data analytics for MATs, data analytics for Schools, evidence based decision making, ICT reviews, ICT vision & strategy

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